{"id":25315,"date":"2018-11-12T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/uncategorized\/cotton-uses-little-water-if-you-know-what-youre-doing\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:05:54","slug":"cotton-uses-little-water-if-you-know-what-youre-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/cotton-uses-little-water-if-you-know-what-youre-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCOTTON USES LITTLE WATER \u2013 IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU\u2019RE DOING!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho invented this fairy tale of thirsty cotton? Who claimed it, repeated it, spread it and made sure that everyone believes this fairy tale?\u201d This is the question asked in a recent report by cotton textile specialist Gebr. Elmer &amp; Zweifel of Bempflingen, Baden-Wurttemberg. Regardless of the search for the perpetrators of this exaggeration, the company argues that cotton needs less water than all common crops!<\/p>\n<p>This escalation makes it clear that the cotton plant is not the problem. When faced with the threat of a water shortage, farmers will even choose to grow cotton rather than other crops. The problems are more a case of location, cultivation method and irrigation management.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, cotton, just like any other plant, needs moist soil during the initial growth phase of around three months (not swampy, as in monocultures with poor water management). During the ripening period, temperatures should be around 30 degrees. Too much moisture, or even wetness, worsens the quality. Ideal location conditions can be found between the latitudes of 32\u00b0 south and the 37\u00b0 north, where there has still been sufficient rainfall. Here, no plant competes with another for water.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9034\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9034\" src=\"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Projekt_Uganda_Cotonea_Credit-Klaus-Mellenthin-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvest on an ecologically managed, rain irrigated cotton field in Uganda. \u00a9 Klaus J. A. Mellenthin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But even here, many sources now name 45\u00b0 north as possible for the cultivation of cotton. The fact that as in Uzbekistan, which lies at 42\u00b0 north, uncontrolled, permanent surface irrigation is leading, or has led to an environmental catastrophe such as the drying out of the Aral Sea, cannot be attributed to cotton. Instead, the cause is clearly to be found in the form of irrigation management. As an alternative, for example, there is targeted droplet irrigation, which greatly reduces water consumption. No water is lost through evaporation, and certainly not through the \u2018thirst\u2019 of the cotton plant. A notable example of this is Israeli cotton production, which plays a leading role in this irrigation method.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gebr\u00fcder Elmer &amp; Zweifel, \u201cIt is absolutely necessary that we finally differentiate between what can be attributed to the old crop plant and what is caused by monocultures, irrigation according to the \u2018a lot helps a lot\u2019 method and wrong site selection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho invented this fairy tale of thirsty cotton? Who claimed it, repeated it, spread it and made sure that everyone believes this fairy tale?\u201d This is the question asked in a recent report by cotton textile specialist Gebr. Elmer &amp; Zweifel of Bempflingen, Baden-Wurttemberg. Regardless of the search for the perpetrators of this exaggeration, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1138,159,1225,841,1140],"class_list":["post-25315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-aralsea","tag-cotton","tag-irrigationmanagement","tag-rainfed","tag-wateruse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25316,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions\/25316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}